Sample Vertiflite article: Project Zero

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Through a special arrangement with AgustaWestland, one of AHS
International’s corporate members, Vertiflite
has the exclusive story of its Project Zero “technology incubator.”

AgustaWestland stunned the world on
March 4, 2013 when it announced at Heli-Expo that it had secretly flown an
unconventional technology demonstrator aircraft, codenamed “Project Zero,” that
looks unlike any aircraft before. The long list of disruptive innovations
demonstrated and pioneered by Project Zero were just as stunning as the
aircraft itself.

A swashplateless,
all-electric powered, hybrid tiltrotor/fan-in-wing “technology incubator,” as AgustaWestland
calls it, Project Zero “employs no hydraulics, doesn’t burn fossil fuel and
generates zero emissions.” The fact that Project Zero made its first flight
just six months after design kick-off is even more impressive.